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SteamSpy - Approximate LTD sales for every game on Steam (Updated Daily)

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thesaucetastic

Unconfirmed Member
Question, galyonkin -

Is it possible to track changes in reviews with your algorithm? Like, say on release a game gets terrible reviews, but it turns things around and the later reviews reflect that accordingly. Is there a graph of some sort that can illustrate the changes in positive and negative reviews?
 
D

Durante

Member
thesaucetastic said:
Question, galyonkin -

Is it possible to track changes in reviews with your algorithm? Like, say on release a game gets terrible reviews, but it turns things around and the later reviews reflect that accordingly. Is there a graph of some sort that can illustrate the changes in positive and negative reviews?
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I'm sure galyonkin will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the existing review chart already does that. Inverted negative reviews will show up as red bars on top.
 
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galyonkin

Actual Russian Spy.
thesaucetastic said:
Question, galyonkin -

Is it possible to track changes in reviews with your algorithm? Like, say on release a game gets terrible reviews, but it turns things around and the later reviews reflect that accordingly. Is there a graph of some sort that can illustrate the changes in positive and negative reviews?
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Yes, I'm tracking it already :)
 
Chobel

Chobel

Member
https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/613677660020064256

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T

Teeth

Member
Durante said:
Sadly, we don't really know how many bought it from Steam, so we don't know which percentage requests a refund.
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While that's true, I feel like there are only 3 other main targets that would make up the majority of the remaining sales;
1) nVidia promo codes
2) Green Man Gaming, since they've had it on sale for 25%-40% off for the last couple of months (which I would surmise takes up a lot of the in-the-know buyers)
3) Nuuvem, for when the game wasn't region locked and was dirt cheap (again, in the know purchasers, though likely much smaller than the GMG amount because of the extra hurdles).

GMG has said that they will issue refunds as per WB's statement, which I would assume means that WB will be revoking the keys through steam after refunds. That's just an assumption though.

Any reports I've seen of the purchase percentage of games directly on Steam vs. other stores has been something ridiculous like 85% for Steam and 15% for everywhere else. I think we'll get a pretty good idea from these Steam stats.

I really feel like it's the Steam refunding policy that has moved the hand of WB to actually put some work in on the port and not just issue a couple of patches. I think this will bode very well for the future. And personally, I'm thrilled; I'm an Arkham fan and I was seriously disappointed with the turnout for the port initially and I had no faith that it would be fixed. Now I have real hope that it will.
 
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Bluth54

Member
CecilRousso said:
Been looking at Massive Chalice now, as it was a midweek deal now right after the Summer Sale. It was in the top page of most sold games for three straight days, but did according to Steamspy barely move in terms number of ownerships?

http://steamspy.com/app/246110
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I would imagine that since the summer sale just ended the sales of most games on Steam will be lower then normal for a bit, so you don't need to sell as many copies to get to the top of the sales chart.
 
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CecilRousso

Member
galyonkin said:
It was on Steam Summer Sale, so many people bought it then.
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Yeah, I just thought it was strange that such a cheap title could stay that high up on Steams own best seller list for several days, and not move more copies then that. I would have thought that such a trend would mean at least a couple of thousands sold copies, but I guess I overestimated it.
 
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Saty

Member
1. Would it be possible to filter out free games when looking at the main lists?

2. Early Access tag. Is it possible to have a comment on a game's page if it left EA? Currently games that have started in EA and later 'fully' released are still part of Early Access searches. It makes it inconvenient in tracking trends and etc. when i have to check if the game is or isn't still in Early Access.
One option is to remove the EA tag from games that were fully released. If that's more complicated then the second option is to have a comment on the game's Steamspy page that notes that the game fully released at XX date.
 
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galyonkin

Actual Russian Spy.
Saty said:
1. Would it be possible to filter out free games when looking at the main lists?

2. Early Access tag. Is it possible to have a comment on a game's page if it left EA? Currently games that have started in EA and later 'fully' released are still part of Early Access searches. It makes it inconvenient in tracking trends and etc. when i have to check if the game is or isn't still in Early Access.
One option is to remove the EA tag from games that were fully released. If that's more complicated then the second option is to have a comment on the game's Steamspy page that notes that the game fully released at XX date.
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1. Yes, just type "$" into a search field

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2. Yes, it will be possible in the future, I'll add it soon :)
 
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Hrothgar

Member
If one refunds the game on the day of release ( or shortly after purchase really), wont Steamspy just not know it was ever bought? It doesnt sample all profiles on the same day.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Hrothgar said:
If one refunds the game on the day of release, wont Steamspy just not know it was ever bought?
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Yeah, the section_type = ownersonly flag wasn't removed until ~23 hours after release, so SteamSpy's data only begins from that point.
 
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Knurek

Member
Whipped this up for Steam thread, might catch a few more eyes here:

Disclaimer: This is for games newly released between 22.05.2015 and 28.06.2015. I'm only including games that have more than 10k owners, there's a lot of great games that sold less than that, but I don't think Steamspy results for such low values are statistically sound. I did remove the games that left Early Access this month, as they had a lot more time to accrue owners (Tabletop Simulator, Audiosurf 2, Massive Chalice)
Also, standard Steamspy disclaimer applies - those are ownership data, not revenue and definitely not profit. Many of these games have been discounted during the Steam Sale, a few have been bundled already/before release.

With that in mind, here's the top 10. Full results are available here


#1: ARK: Survival Evolved ($24.89) - 73% positive out of 18004 reviews: 929,386 ± 21,833


#2: DiggerOnline ($9.99) - 48% positive out of 15707 reviews: 474,077 ± 15,608


#3: Batman: Arkham Knight ($59.99) - 39% positive out of 13011 reviews: 336,891 ± 13,161


#4: LEGO Worlds ($14.99) - 88% positive out of 4278 reviews:225,764 ± 10,776


#5: Magicka 2 ($14.99) - 64% positive out of 1479 reviews: 108,966 ± 7,488


#6: BeamNG.drive ($24.99) - 91% positive out of 1174 reviews: 107,751 ± 7,446


#7: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2 Sisters Generation ($29.99) - 94% positive out of 838 reviews: 68,863 ± 5,953


#8: LEGO Jurassic World ($39.99) - 77% positive out of 689 reviews: 59,412 ± 5,530


#9: Duck Game ($12.99) - 96% positive out of 985 reviews: 54,686 ± 5,305


#10: The Game That Shall Not Be Named ($19.99) - 78% positive out of 2525 reviews: 48,474 ± 4,995

Please let me know if you find a chart like this worthwhile.
CS:GO probably sold at least places 2-10 combined during the sale. Kind of hard to compile a complete best-seller list without more data-mining than I care for though.
 
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Durante

Member
Well, I find it interesting.

(And I have no idea what DiggerOnline is. Or Duck Game. But I've at least heard of everything else)
 
A

alexandros

Banned
Knurek said:
Whipped this up for Steam thread, might catch a few more eyes here:

Disclaimer: This is for games newly released between 22.05.2015 and 28.06.2015. I'm only including games that have more than 10k owners, there's a lot of great games that sold less than that, but I don't think Steamspy results for such low values are statistically sound. I did remove the games that left Early Access this month, as they had a lot more time to accrue owners (Tabletop Simulator, Audiosurf 2, Massive Chalice)
Also, standard Steamspy disclaimer applies - those are ownership data, not revenue and definitely not profit. Many of these games have been discounted during the Steam Sale, a few have been bundled already/before release.

With that in mind, here's the top 10. Full results are available here


#1: ARK: Survival Evolved ($24.89) - 73% positive out of 18004 reviews: 929,386 ± 21,833


#2: DiggerOnline ($9.99) - 48% positive out of 15707 reviews: 474,077 ± 15,608


#3: Batman: Arkham Knight ($59.99) - 39% positive out of 13011 reviews: 336,891 ± 13,161


#4: LEGO Worlds ($14.99) - 88% positive out of 4278 reviews:225,764 ± 10,776


#5: Magicka 2 ($14.99) - 64% positive out of 1479 reviews: 108,966 ± 7,488


#6: BeamNG.drive ($24.99) - 91% positive out of 1174 reviews: 107,751 ± 7,446


#7: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2 Sisters Generation ($29.99) - 94% positive out of 838 reviews: 68,863 ± 5,953


#8: LEGO Jurassic World ($39.99) - 77% positive out of 689 reviews: 59,412 ± 5,530


#9: Duck Game ($12.99) - 96% positive out of 985 reviews: 54,686 ± 5,305


#10: The Game That Shall Not Be Named ($19.99) - 78% positive out of 2525 reviews: 48,474 ± 4,995

Please let me know if you find a chart like this worthwhile.
CS:GO probably sold at least places 2-10 combined during the sale. Kind of hard to compile a complete best-seller list without more data-mining than I care for though.
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Nice work! It's a shame we don't get NPD numbers anymore, I'd love to see a comparison of both charts.
 
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Basileus777

Member
Tbh #7 doing 68k during a Steam sale month is less than I'd have predicted. Though those numbers are quite good for a Neptunia game. IFI won't be giving up on Steam anytime soon.

Durante said:
WTF. Who would DDOS SteamSpy.
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It really is inexplicable. I've given up trying to make sense of DDOS attacks.
 
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Durante

Member
I have no idea how well the Neptunia games sell in the West on consoles (any data out there?), but Re;Birth 2 on Steam already outsold Re;Birth 1 and 2 in Japan combined :p
 
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Lain

Member
ZoddGutts said:
Surprise that Temco hasn't put Gust games on Steam yet, there's clearly an audience on Steam that would eat up their games.
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I'm not sure there is an audience on Steam ready to eat up barebones 60€ ports (I bought Toukiden but how many did?).
I mean, IFI makes what seem to be more thought out ports with aggressive pricing (Re:Birth 2 debuted at a 29,99€ price point, with a 50% off discount and 3 weeks later during the summer sale it was 70% off) and that is working in their favor, to some extent. In contrast, I don't see Tecmo ports doing all that well given the care put into them and the price point they debut at, so I have my doubts about Gust games doing too well on Steam given how Tecmo would most likely handle them.
 
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Knurek

Member
ZoddGutts said:
Surprise that Temco hasn't put Gust games on Steam yet, there's clearly an audience on Steam that would eat up their games.
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Well, considering the botchjob last PhyreEngine PC port was, I'm not sure we want them on Steam.
We want them on Steam
 
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rjc571

Banned
Knurek said:
Whipped this up for Steam thread, might catch a few more eyes here:

Disclaimer: This is for games newly released between 22.05.2015 and 28.06.2015. I'm only including games that have more than 10k owners, there's a lot of great games that sold less than that, but I don't think Steamspy results for such low values are statistically sound. I did remove the games that left Early Access this month, as they had a lot more time to accrue owners (Tabletop Simulator, Audiosurf 2, Massive Chalice)
Also, standard Steamspy disclaimer applies - those are ownership data, not revenue and definitely not profit. Many of these games have been discounted during the Steam Sale, a few have been bundled already/before release.

With that in mind, here's the top 10. Full results are available here


#1: ARK: Survival Evolved ($24.89) - 73% positive out of 18004 reviews: 929,386 ± 21,833


#2: DiggerOnline ($9.99) - 48% positive out of 15707 reviews: 474,077 ± 15,608


#3: Batman: Arkham Knight ($59.99) - 39% positive out of 13011 reviews: 336,891 ± 13,161


#4: LEGO Worlds ($14.99) - 88% positive out of 4278 reviews:225,764 ± 10,776


#5: Magicka 2 ($14.99) - 64% positive out of 1479 reviews: 108,966 ± 7,488


#6: BeamNG.drive ($24.99) - 91% positive out of 1174 reviews: 107,751 ± 7,446


#7: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2 Sisters Generation ($29.99) - 94% positive out of 838 reviews: 68,863 ± 5,953


#8: LEGO Jurassic World ($39.99) - 77% positive out of 689 reviews: 59,412 ± 5,530


#9: Duck Game ($12.99) - 96% positive out of 985 reviews: 54,686 ± 5,305


#10: The Game That Shall Not Be Named ($19.99) - 78% positive out of 2525 reviews: 48,474 ± 4,995

Please let me know if you find a chart like this worthwhile.
CS:GO probably sold at least places 2-10 combined during the sale. Kind of hard to compile a complete best-seller list without more data-mining than I care for though.
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I don't find this chart worthwhile because I don't know what game #10 is, because you gave it a fake name and linked the banner to the Wikipedia article on antisocial personality disorder instead of the game's Steam page.
 
A

Arthea

Member
rjc571 said:
I don't find this chart worthwhile because I don't know what game #10 is, because you gave it a fake name and linked the banner to the Wikipedia article on antisocial personality disorder instead of the game's Steam page.
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This game is banned on gaf, so you'll have to research yourself if you wanna know so much
 
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Obliterator

Member
Durante said:
I have no idea how well the Neptunia games sell in the West on consoles (any data out there?), but Re;Birth 2 on Steam already outsold Re;Birth 1 and 2 in Japan combined :p
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Yeah a lot of these Japanese games are finding new life / bigger audiences on PC. I think support from Japan is just gonna keep growing
 
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